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Layout Error - Please Help

kaante

I want to make the layout of a website, where i want the banner at the top and below it a line which is a status bar, and next to the status bar on the left hand side is a small icon.

Below this staus bar and icon is a menu, which is on the left hand side and one on the right hand side.

In the middle of these two menus is the main content box.
I wrote the following code, but when i veiw it i see the banner and the status bar with the icon but i do not see anything below it, i just see a blank white space.

<html>
<head>

<meta name="author" content="Website">
<title>mysite</title>


<frameset rows="58,*" cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
  <frame src="TopBanner.htm" name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
  <frameset rows="23,*" cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
		<frameset rows="*" cols="74,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
		<frame src="MessageViewer.php" name="leftFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
		<frame src="StatusBarNew.php" name="topFrame1" scrolling="NO" noresize>
<frameset cols="175,*,250" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" border="0" borderwidth="0">
    <frame name="leftFrame" src="p.php">
<frameset rows="68,*" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" border="0" borderwidth="0">
    <frame name="menu" src="menu.php" scrolling=no>
    <frame name="content" src="home.php" marginwidth=20>
    <frame name="right_side" src="rightside.php" scrolling=no>

</frameset>
</frameset>
</head>
<body bgcolor=#000000>
</body>
</html>

Please can anyone tell me where i am going wrong and point me in the right direction. Thanks

kaante

no one?

lozza1978

you should really try in a html forum, you will have much more luck,

my 2 cents,

Rodney_H_

Edited: This markup doesn't validate at all. You should consider using <div> tags rather than frames, anyway...

LoganK

This is kind of vague...what is happening, and what do you want to be happening?

And why are you using so many frames (I think I counted upwards of 5), when through today's techology, you have so many better options?

kaante

wat can i use instead of frames?

solodesignz

<div style="overflow:auto; height:50px; width:50px;"></div>

One option...

LoganK

Good idea, divs are great. See, today, you can use normal HTML containers ("p", "span", "div") and arrange/position them with CSS. This is actually the preferred method of content-presentation today.

For you, I'd say to go with a table and use includes() where needed. Much easier to maintain.

Rodney_H_

LoganK wrote:
Much easier to maintain.

Yeah. Could you imagine trying to keep straight how to "target" your frames if you keep it the way you have it? Nightmare

Tables or divs, divs or tables. I concur.... 🙂

LoganK

Rodney H. wrote:
Yeah. Could you imagine trying to keep straight how to "target" your frames if you keep it the way you have it? Nightmare

More than a nightmare - it'd be like trying to debug very buggy Fortran! (if you don't get it, you're too young)

Rodney_H_

LoganK wrote:
More than a nightmare - it'd be like trying to debug very buggy Fortran! (if you don't get it, you're too young)

I googled "fortran" just now. It figures, the fortran company web site is built using frames:

<html>

<head>
<meta name="content" content="fortran, fortran products, services, information, programming language">
<title>The Fortran Company</title>
</head>

<frameset cols=20%,* border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 bgcolor="#fafad2">
   <frame src="menu.html" border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 name="menu">
   <frame src="home.html" border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 name="home">
</frameset>

</html>

LoganK

How ironic 😃

Rodney_H_

LoganK wrote:
How ironic 😃

🙂 Yup!